Railroad-tie receiver.



NiTnD STAIFESy PATENT BION E. HOMAN, OF PACIFIC JUNCTION, IOVA.

RAILROAD-TIE RECEIVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 644,600, dated March 6, 1900.

Application led March 15, 1899. Serial No. 709,148. (No model.)

pend the tie in mid-air at the side of the struc` ture on which the ties rest; and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide a means by which from ten to fifteen ties may be removed from or placed under the railroad-irons without resetting of the machine; second, to render it unnecessary t0 remove the machine on account of passing trains; third, to render it safe i' or men to labor at the work of removing or in anyway handling ties at dangerous heights when there is a strong wind blowing, and, fourth, to make it possible to perform more work in less time with the outlay of less 'manual labor than is done by former methods. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a general View of the entire construction as it appears when in place for work; Fig. 2, alongitudinal section of one of the rollers on the line a a, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa side elevation of the hook. Fig. 4 isa side elevation of the outer end of the angle-bracket containing the socket, and Fig. 5 shows one of the steel bars which form the connections of the brackets.

Similar iigu res refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In Fig.1, lis a section of a steelgirder which supports the ties.

2 is an adjustable hook so attached to the bracket-iron 3 5 6 that it can be adjusted to fit on girders varyin g in width from six inches to twenty inches on the upper surface. I purpose that the hook 2 be secured to the bracket-iron 3 5 6 by means of bolts which are to be provided with nuts at one end and which shall serve the purpose of making the connection rigid.

3 3', Fig. 1, is an upright brace which rests against the upper and lower .iianges of the girder l.

4 is the location of bolts.

5 and 5 are longitudinal braces of steel,

which act as beams on which loose boards may be laid for a door whenever it is necessary or desirable that men need to stand on t-he re ceiver to work.

6 6 is an oblique brace connecting the braces 5 with 3 and 5 with 3'.

7 is a roller provided with journals 8, one at each end, each being one inch in diameter and resting in a bearing 12 13 in the manner shown in perspective Fig. l.

9 is a steel bar one inch in diameter, having a stud l0 at each end bent at right angles and perpendicular to 9 and made so as to provide the bearings I2 13 for the roller-journals 8.

1l are sockets made at the ends of the braces 5 5 and receive the studs 15 15. At the end of 5 are made two sockets, through each of which is passed a stud 15. Stud l5 is located precisely iive feet from stud l5 and passes through socket l1 at the end of 5. It is obvious that each of the outside brackets is secured to the center bracket 5' 3' 6 at the end containing the sockets in a similar manner, so that it is necessary to-have two similar sockets in the center bracket. The nature and position of said sockets are shown in Fig. 4 at 11.

The studs l5 15' are provided with nuts 17, Fig. 5, which may be set up against the shoulder 18 and so secure the bracket-irons as to admit of swinging freely in a horizontal direction. My object in having brackets to so move is that the machine may be in a manner folded together, and thus facilitate its being placed in position or removed from its position on the girder.

I propose to have bearing l2 made open, so that the roller 7 may be removed'easily from the receiver,which makes it more convenient to handle said receiver. My reason for having two rollers is that while it may be necessary and possible to remove ties from one place within the limits of the machine others may be needed to be placed beneath the irons within the same limits, so that by having two rollers so arranged as to turn independently men at one end of the receiver may take out v ties from under the rails. Said ties resting on ICO the roller will cause the roller on which they rest to turn outward, While ties being inserted beneath the rail by men at the opposite end of the receiver will cause the roller to revolve in the opposite direction to the rst roller. Thus I avoid any friction which might arise from having a single roller. I purpose to have rollers made of hollow gas-pipe three inches in diameter outside measurement, the journals to be made on plugs which iit firmly in the ends of the gas-pipe, as shown in perspective Fig. 2.

14 is a presser-foot fastened by bolts to the braces 3 and 6 in the manner shown in Fig.l, the purpose of which is to furnish a rest for the foot ot' the bracket on steel girders where the lower flange is so far removed from the upper i'lange that the lower extremity of the perpendicular brace 3 3 will not rest against it. The presser-foot 14 may be removed in the case of wooden girders, where the perpendicular brace 3 3 will come flush against the side face of the girder. I further purpose to make the entire machine of first-quality steel of dimensions suitable to the amount of weight they are expected to sustain, the gaspipe only of which the body of rollers are composed being excepted. The beak 16 on the adjustable hook 2 drops over the upper iiange of the girder and on the opposite side from that against which the presser-foot and perpendicular brace above mentioned rest.

The'body of receiver is below the upper su rface of the ties on which the rail is laid and extends outward from the outer side of girder, so that there is nothing to interfere with the free passage of trains in either direction, which feature cannot to my knowledge be claimed of any other apparatus used for the same purpose in railroad-work.

The dimensions of the railroad-tie receiver are as follows: From the outer edge of brace 3 8 to outer side of roller is six feet; from the top edge of brace 5 5 to lower extremity of perpendicular brace, forty-tive inches; from outside bracket to outside bracket, inclusive, ten feet. From outside stud 13 to outside stud 13 of connecting-rods 9 is twelve feet. The length of rollers, journals inclusive, is six feet each.

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A railroadtie receiver, composed of a supporting-platform comprising two or more 'integral right-angled bracket-irons an adjustable hook and brace mounted at the top and bottom side of each bracket-iron, and sockets in the ends of the horizontal sides of each bracket-iron, in combination with rollers and roller-supports mounted in and extended between each two bracket-irons.

BION E. HOMAN.

Witnesses:

JOHN Q. Goss, THOMAS J. RHoADs. 

